In post-apartheid South Africa, there is limited empirical and theoretical research on the student movement that explores multiple identities. The vast majority of literature on social movements generally focus on a collective rather than seeking to understand movements through a personal identity lens. Literature exploring individual characteristics is important as it will provide insight into how gender, race, class, sexuality and language shape the movement. Intersectionality provides a holistic framework to explore the relationship between activists’ identities, how different identity characteristics interact in people’s lives and the impact this has on social interaction. Intersectionality is also a useful framework with which to understand the postmodern project of conceptualising multiple and shifting identities. Moreover, this framework breaks down different identity markers and explores the intersection between them. These identity markers highlight the characteristics that have meaning for us and the society in which we exist. This paper will focus on the contemporary student movement at the University of Pretoria (UP). The study will draw on intersectionality to explore the dimensions of identities that students have, and how they view changes to these as a result of being part of the protests. The central research question of this study is: In what ways have the recent student movements at the University of Pretoria shaped student’s activists’ identities?